A  COMPARATIVE  TABLE  OF  SECTIONS  AS  THEY 


APPEAR   IN   THE 


NEW  YORK  CITY  CHARTER 

AND 

THE   CHARTER  REVISION    BILL 

WITH 

TABLE  OF  CONTENTS  OF  REVISION  BILL 

AND 

TABLE  OF  CHARTER  AMENDMENTS  FROM 


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NOTE. 

The  bill  prepared  by  the  Charter  Revision  Commission  embodies 
a  complete  charter  for  New  York  City.  Although  the  bill  is  so  printed 
as  to  indicate  in  detail  the  amendments  proposed  to  the  existing  charter, 
the  difficulty  in  making  a  comparison  between  the  provisions  of  the  bill 
and  those  of  the  charter  is  very  great.  This  difficulty  is  due  for  the 
most  part  to  the  general  re-arrangement  of  the  charter  proposed  in  the 
bill,  and  the  consequent  appearance  of  sections  in  the  bill  under  num- 
bers other  than  those  which  the  same  sections  bear  in  the  charter.  Each 
section  of  the  bill  refers  to  any  section  of  the  charter  from  which  it  is 
derived.  But  to  the  question  what  the  bill  proposes  to  do  with  this  or 
that  section  of  the  charter,  the  answer  can  be  found  in  many  cases  only 
by  searching  in  the  bill  for  the  lost  section  of  the  charter.  The  accom- 
panying table  will  show  what  the  Revision  Commission  proposes  to  do 
with  each  section  of  the  present  charter  which  does  not  appear  in  the 
bill  under  its  present  number.  As  a  further  aid  in  comparing  the  two 
documents,  a  list  of  the  chapter  headings  of  the  bill  is  also  printed. 

To  facilitate  amendment,  the  charter  was  so  drawn  that  several 
numbers  between  that  of  the  last  section  in  each  chapter,  and  that  of  the 
first  section  in  the  following  chapter  were  not  used.  It  happens,  there- 
fore, that  the  bill  has  certain  sections  under  numbers  which  do  not  occur 
in  the  charter.     They  are  : — 


6i 

496, 

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'408 

2^5  : 

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I 

430 

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35  tn  iJ 

I 

28 

1899 
1899 

379 
698 

Bounds  of  City. 
City  Clerk. 

690* 

1900 

718  ■ 

Abandonment  proceed- 
ings. 

45 

1900 

7 

Franchises  Rapid  Transit 

691* 
712 

Same.                                / 

49 

58 

1899 
1900 

691 
247 

Municipal  Assembly. 
Commissioners  of  Deeds. 

1900 
1900 

620  j 

Commissioner  of  Correc- 
tion. 

73 

1899 

564 

Franchises. 

720 

1898 

573 

Fire  Commissioner. 

124 

1899 

370" 

Affected  by  general  civil 

722 

1899 

612) 

125 

1899 

370 

service    law,    but    not 

722 

1900 

821 

Fire  Department 

126 

1899 

370 

expressly  amended  or 

748 

1900 

155) 

127 

1899 

370  J 

repealed. 

Sto 

1898 
1898 

602) 

Fire  Department  tax  on 

150 

1899 

130 

Deputy  Comptroller. 

811* 

foreign   fire   insurance 

187 

1899 

74 

Special  revenue  bonds. 

LMJZ    I 

companies. 

217 

1898 

650 

Leases  to  city. 

894* 

1899 

500 

Personal  taxes. 

230 
230 

1898 
1899 

391) 
126  • 

Appropriations.      Chaps. 
391  and  126  not  in  terms 

937 
937 

1898 
1898 

432 

515 

Taxes  and  assessments. 

230 

1899 

196 

amendments  charter. 

948 

1899 

212 

Assessments 

255 

1900 

284' 

Corporation  counsel. 

1023a* 

1899 

706 

Taxes  and  assessments. 

355 

1898 

380 

Police  Pensions. 

1055 

1898 

652' 

372* 
373* 

1899 
1899 

674' 
674 

1060 
1064 

1900 
1900 

751 
751 

Department  of  Education 

374* 

1899 

674 

1065 

1900 

751J 

375* 

1899 

674 

1083 

1898 

H 

Teachers'  retirement 

376* 

1899 

674 

Police  matrons,  arrest  of 

fund. 

377* 

1899 

674  ■ 

women,  etc. 

109 1 

1899 

417 

Teachers'  salaries. 

378* 
379* 

1899 
1899 

674 
674 

1091 
1117 

1900 
1899 

751 1 

254  1 

Department  of  Education 

380* 
381* 

1899 
1899 

674 
674  J 

1128 
1132 

1900 
1900 

757 1 
757/ 

College  City  of  New  York 

422 

1899 

212 

Local  improvements. 

1212 

1900 

663 

Department  of  Health. 

471 

1900 

283 

Water  contracts. 

1353 

1899 

254 

Municipal  Court  Justices. 

480 

1900 

463 

Taxation  lands  for  water 
supply. 

1367 
1373 

1898 
1899 

546) 
699  f 

Municipal  Court. 

518 

1899 

313 

Aqueduct  Commission. 

1400 

1898 

389 

Criminal  Courts. 

1898 

613] 

Park  Ave.  improvement. 

( 

Justices  of  Special  Ses- 
sions and  City  Magis- 

527 

Does  not  amend  charter 

1403 

1899 

367  i 

536 

1899 

261. 

Department     of     Street 
Cleaning, 

1513 

1897 

703) 

trates. 

744- 

Commissioner  of    Street 

1514 

1897 

703  \ 

Boards  of  Pharmacy. 

541 

1900 

Cleaning. 

1519 

1897 

703) 

567* 

1899 

568 

Lateral  sewers. 

1528 

1900 

615 

Publication  civil  list 

567 

1900 

623 

Lateral  sewers. 

1583 

1899 

74 

County  officers'  salaries, 

568* 

1900 

83 

Sewage  disposal  works. 

1586 

1899 

74 

Boards  of  Supervisors. 

575 

1900 

628 

Inspection  electric  lights. 

1587 

1899 

433] 

Treasurer    Richmond 

( 

Inspection    gas    meters. 

County. 

576 

1900 

629  j 

Not  in   terms   amend- 
ment charter. 

1593 

1899 

74 

Queens  County  tax. 

MMm' 


CONTENTS    OF  CHARTER  REVISION  BILL  AS   PROPOSED 
BY    REVISION    COMMISSION. 


Chap.  I.  Boundaries,  Boroughs,  Powers,  Rights  and  Obligations 

of  the  City. 
Chap.  IL  Legislative  Department. 

Chap.  III.  Franchise  and  Grants  of  land  under  water. 

Title  I.     Franchises. 
Title  2.     Grants  of  land  under  water. 
Chap.  IV.  The  Executive. 

Chap.  V.  The  Mayor. 

Chap.  VI.  Department  of  Finance. 

Title  I.     The  comptroller. 

Title  2.     The  bonds  and  obligations  of  the  city. 

Title  3.     The  chamberlain. 

Title  4.     The  sinking  funds. 

Title  5.     Appropriations  and  the  board  of  estimate 
and  apportionment. 

Title  6.     Levying  taxes. 
Chap.VII.  Law  Department. 

Chap.  VIII.  Police  Department  and  Board  of  Elections. 

Title  I.     Police  Department. 

Title  2.     Board  of  Elections. 
Chap.  IX.  Borough  Officers. 

Title  I.     Borough  officers. 

Title  2.     Bureau  of  buildings. 
Chap.  X.  Contracts  and  Local  Improvements. 

Title  I .     General  provisions  relating  to  contracts. 

Title  2.     Local  boards. 

Title  3.     Local  improvements. 

Title  4.     Maps  and  plans. 
Chap.  XI.  Departments   of  Water   Supply,    Gas   and   Electricity, 

Street  Cleaning  and  Bridges. 

Title  I .     General  provisions. 

Title  2.     Department  of  water  supply,  gas  and  elec- 
tricity. 

Title  3.     Department  of  street  cleaning. 


Title  4.     Department  of  bridges. 
Chap.  XII.  Department  of  Parks. 

Title  I.     The  parks  of  the  city. 
Title  2.     The  art  commission. 

Chap.  XIII.        Public  Charities. 

Title  I.     Department  oif  Public  Charities. 
Title  2.     Bellevue  and  Allied  Hospitals  in  the  City 
of  New  York. 

Chap.  XIV.        Department  of  Correction. 

Chap.  XV.  Fire  Department. 

Title  I.  Organization,  duties  and  powers  of  officers 
and  men. 

Title  2.     Fires  and  their  extinction. 

Title  3.  Prevention  of  fires;  explosives  and  com- 
bustible materials. 

Title  4.  Fire  marshals,  and  investigations  of  origin 
of  fires. 

Title  5.     Relief  fund  and  pensions. 

Title  6.     Tax  upon  foreign  insurance  companies. 
Chap.  XVI.        Docks,  Piers,  Harbor,  Port  and  Waters. 

Title  I .     Department  of  docks  and  ferries. 

Title  2.     Piers,  slips  and  wharfage. 

Title  3.     General  provisions. 
Chap.  XVII.      Taxes  and  Assessments. 

Title  I.  Department  of  taxes  and  assessments ;  pow- 
ers and  duties. 

Title  2.  Assessments  for  local  improvements  other 
than  those  confirmed  by  a  court  of 
record. 

Title  3.  Vacating  and  modifying  assessments  for 
local  improvements  other  than  those  con- 
firmed by  a  court  of  record. 

Title  4.     Opening  streets  and  parks. 

Title  5.  Sales  of  land  for  taxes,  assessments  and 
water  rates. 


Chap.  XVIII.     Department  of  Education. 

Title  I.     The  public  schools  and  their  management. 

Title  2.     The  College  of  the  City  of  New  York. 

Title  3.     The  normal  college. 

Title  4.     General  provisions. 
Chap.  XIX.        Department  of  Health. 

Title  I.     Powers  and  duties  of  the  department,  its 
officers  and  administration. 

Title  2.     Marriages,  births  and  deaths. 

Title  3.     Duties  of  physicians  and  others. 

Title  4.     Legal  proceedings  and  punishment  for  diso- 
bedience of  orders  and  ordinances. 

Title  5.     Reimbursement  of  expenses. 

Title  6.     Abatement  by  suits. 

Title  7.     Tenement  and  lodging  houses. 

Title  8.     Pension  fund. 
Chap.  XX.  The  Inferior  Local  Courts. 

Title  I .     The  city  court  of  New  York. 

Title  2.     The  municipal  court  of  The  City  of  New 
York. 

Title  3.     Inferior  courts  of  criminal  jurisdiction. 

Title  4.     The  marshals. 

Title  5.     Interpreters. 
Chap.  XXI.        The   Acquisition   of  Lands  and  Interests   Therein  for 
Public  Purposes. 

Chap.  XXII.       General  Statutes. 

Title  I .     Commercial  paper  during  epidemics. 

Title  2.     Pharmacists  and  druggists. 

Title  3.     Board  of  city  record. 

Title  4.     General  provisions. 

Title  5.     Coroners. 
Chap.  XXIII.     Provisions  Relating  to  the  Counties  and   Repeal  Pro- 
visions. 

Title  I.     Provisions  relating  to  the  counties. 

Title  2.     Repeal  provisions. 


CHARTER  AMENDMENTS  PROPOSED  BY  REVISION  COMMISSION, 
TABLE   OF  SECTION   NUMBERS. 


(Sections  which  retain  in  the  revision  their  numbers  in  the 
charter  are  not  included  here.) 


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44 
46 

54 
42 

19 

47 

43 

20 

48 

47 

21 

50 

44 

24 

51 

26 

52 

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46 

43 

53 

54 

REPEALED,   CHARTER 


360 


373 


102 

131 

132 

133 
136 

137 
233 
234 
247 
286 
287 

295 
296 

304 
322 

32s 
326 
327 
328 

329 
330 
358 
359 

361 

363 
364 
365 
366 

367 


REPEALED. 


369 


375 


368 


370 


371 

358 

372 

359 

373 

360 

374 

375 

361 

376 

362 

377 

363 

378 

364 

379 

.365 

380 

366 

381 

367 

390 

425 

391 

426 

392 

427 

393 

428  and  429 

394 

430 

400 

432 

401 

433 

402 

434 

403 

435 

404 

437 

410 
411 
412 
413 

414 

417 

415 
416 

555 


CHARTER. 

REVISION. 

REPEALED. 
417 

CHARTER. 

REVISION. 

REPEALED. 

556 

418 

557 

392 

422 

436 

558 

393 

423 

422 

559 

394 

424 

418 

560 

395 

425 

61 

S6i 

396 

426 

244 

562 

397 

432 

438 

563 

398 

433 

439 

564 

399 

434 

440 

565 

435 

441 

566 

389 

436  243  and  442 

567 

400 

437 

443 

568 

401 

438 

444 

57» 

439 

445 

573 

440 

446 

574 

441 

447 

575 

519 

442 

448 

576 

520 

443 

449 

577 

521 

444 

578 

522 

451 

579 

523 

454 

580 

524 

456 

581 

525 

457 

582 

526 

458 

583 

527 

523 

584 

528 

524 

58s 

529 

525 

391 

586 

526 

387 

587 

530 

527 

388 

588 

644 


405 


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CHARTER. 

REVISION. 

REPEALED. 

CHARTER. 

REVISION. 

REPEALED. 

645 

409 

I081 

1089 

646 

408 

1082 

1098 

647 

407 

1083 

1092 

648 

406 

1084 

1094 

649 

411 

1085 

1095 

650 

410 

1086 

651 

412 

1087 

1096 

652 

413 

901 

931 
1060 

IO6I 

1088 
1089 
IC9O 
1092 
1093 
1094 

1062 

I06I 

1095 

1063 

1062 

1065 
1066 

1096 
1097 
1098 

1067 

1065 

1099 

1097 

1068 

1066 

I  100 

1069 

1067 

IIOI 

1070 

1068 

I  102 

IO7I 

1070 

IIO3 

logo 

1072 
1073 
1074 

I07I 
1072 

1073 

I  104 

1084 

IIO5 
II06 
I  107 
II08 
I  109 
IIIO 

1075 
1076 

1078 

1074 
1075 

T076 

1077 

1079 

1077 

nil 

1080 

1078 

III2 

II 


I405 


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CHARTER. 

REVISION. 

REPEALED. 

CHARTER. 

REVISIOH. 

REPEALED. 

III3 

1406 

1409 

III4 

1093 

1407 

1410 

"I5 

I  100 

1408 

I4II 

' 

HI6 

1409 

I4I2 

III7 

IIOI 

I4IO 

I4I3 

III8 

II02 

I4II 

1415 

III9 

I4I2 

1404 

I  I  90 

1413 

II9I 

I4I4 

I281 

I415 

1407 

1336 

I416 

I381 

I4I7 

1382 

I418 

1384 

1458 

139^ 

1405 

1392 

H59 
1460 

1393 

^ 

146 1 

1394 

1493 

* 

139s 

1536 

1396 

1537 

397 

1588 

1399 

1589 

1400 

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I  401 

1593 

1402 

1406 

1403 
1404 

1594 
1596 
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